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Ojukwu is Symbol of Igbo Survival Struggle in Biafra Nigeria:
It 'll be War to Arrest him, Says APGA
The National Chairman of the All Progressive
Grand Alliance (AGPA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has warned that any attempt by the State Security Service (SSS) to
arrest the party's former presidential candidate, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, will be seen as a declaration
of war. Okorie who spoke with newsmen in Enugu at the weekend warned that if the Federal Government go as far as
arresting Ojukwu "what will happen would be beyond everybody's control." Ojukwu shunned an invitation
by the SSS to discuss the activities of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
and dared the agency to arrest if he had committed an offence. "The Igbo see Ojukwu as a symbol of their struggle
for survival in Nigeria. They feel that arresting him is a humiliation. If Ojukwu is arrested on the opinion he
expressed, while some of us elders might take recourse to constitutional means of seeking redress, I can't guarantee
that the youth will see it like that. They will see it as a declaration of war," said Okorie weekend. According
to him, "the Igbo youth population is composed mainly of those born after the war and they are tetchier since
they did not experience the civil war." He was, however, quick to point out that it was the...(This Day) 
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 The pipeline fire at Imore village in Lagos raged for the third day running yesterday with the BiafraNigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pledging uninterrupted supply of petroleum products. Efforts to put out
the fire and the.. (Vanguard)
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 The Joint Military Task Force put in place by the
Defence Headquarters to combat the activities of cultists and local militia yesterday attacked the operational
base of the leader of the Niger Delta Voluteer Force (NDVF), Alhaji Asari Dokubo. (This Day)
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